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...g tantalizing clues on how typical acid reflux can turn potentially cancerous. In research published in ...the acid-resistance that makes them more likely to turn cancerous. If the telomeres get short enough, maybe the cells cant regenerate any more and maybe t...Test project of patient-centered medical home model endorsed by American College of Physicians
... registry to manage patient populations, which in turn will increase the ability to provide timely clinical interventions. The additional payment and support are meant to help participating practices maintain and expand their PCMH capability. Insurers, employers, and policymakers have expressed in......th higher incomes, more travel is likely, which in turn increases the likelihood of motor vehicle collisions. Alternatively, more tourism to the area may have reduced unemployment but caused more road accidents. The study also shows that as the socioeconomic status, measured here by unemployment rates,...Theory of facial aging gets a facelift from UT Southwestern researchers
...ies regarding aging and may offer new ways to help turn back the clock, UT Southwestern plastic surgeons say. For hundreds of years, everyone has believed that the fat on the face is one confluent mass, which eventually gets weighed down by gravity, creating sagging skin, said Dr. Joel Pessa, assistant ...Researchers link metal ions to neurodegenerative disease
...gate to form fibrils, but only some of the fibrils turn out to be toxic." Those who suffer from Alzheimer's disease, for example, have an unusual amount of sticky amyloid fibrils in their brains. Over time, the fibrils accumulate instead of decomposing and increasingly interfere with the brain's struct...Why women get more migraines than men
...spread across the surface of the brain. CSD may in turn trigger not only the pain of migraine but the visual symptoms, nausea, dizziness and difficulty concentrating so common in migraine patients. Brennan, working in Charles lab, used imaging techniques to visualize the initiation and spread of CSD in...Electric fields have potential as a cancer treatment
...ponents known as microtubules. The microtubules in turn contain components that have a high electric dipole moment, in which there is a large separation of opposite electric charges. Therefore, parts of the mitotic spindle are greatly influenced, and apparently disrupted, by an electric field. The secon...New book guides boomers through retirement maze
...es a stint as the Public Fiduciary in Tucson and a turn as Tucson City Magistrate. In addition to an activ...es a stint as the Public Fiduciary in Tucson and a turn as Tucson City Magistrate. In addition to an active law practice he writes and lectures extensively ...Device helps physically disabled turn on computer
... jack allowing users with physical disabilities to turn on the computer by themselves. The idea is to make those with disabilities as independent as possible, says Drew, who also has designed a unique online Master of Public Administration degree program, the only one in the nation to meet and exceed t...Threats to hope -- Desperation affects reasoning about product information
When our hopes are threatened, we often turn to the marketplace for help. Cant fit into the gorgeous outfit you bought for your high school reunion" Trying to get pregnant" Want a bigger house but afraid you cant afford it" A new study by researchers from University of Southern California argue...Where is the most dangerous place to travel over the holiday?
...ramatically, by an average of 14 percent, which in turn reduces the number of injuries and deaths. This is a public health issue we must take much more seriously, said Munnich. In 2005, 23,549 Americans died on rural roadways. We are right to focus significant attention and resources on preventing thing...ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
...asuring snow depths at regular intervals. These in turn will be used by scientists to assess how well snow conditions can be predicted using existing climate models as well as inputs to methods for improving the accuracy of CryoSat-2 maps of sea-ice thickness. Now on stable ice and with less than 50 km...Study outlines how stroke, head injury can increase risk of Alzheimer's disease
...-strokes called TIAs can set off this process and turn up BACE activity, says Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit and senior author of the Neuron paper. Therapies that protect GGA3 from caspase cleaving might be able to reduce the risk of AD or the more transient type of...Low-carb diets' effects linked to rise in newly identified 'starvation hormone'
... in liver in response to fasting in mice. FGF21 in turn stimulates lipid breakdown in white adipose tissue.... "It may be that some people are more likely to turn on FGF21 than others," Maratos-Flier said. In obese individuals, for example, high insulin levels ma...Study identifies new regulator of fat metabolism
...BIDMC) have identified a key mechanism behind this turn of events. Their findings, which appear in the Jun...rop substantially so that muscle and brain have to turn to alternative fuels, explains senior author Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, MD, an investigator in the De...Old memory traces in brain may trigger chronic pain
... you can think of chronic pain as the inability to turn off the memory of the pain, Apkarian said. Whats exciting is that we now may be relieving what has clinically been the most difficult to treatthe suffering or the emotional component of pain. Scientists have always tried to understand pain from th...Study examines characteristics of female high school students who report steroid use
...wever, those who used steroids were more likely to turn to extreme weight-loss techniques, including vomiting and laxative use. Anabolic steroids are body-shaping agents and cause a loss in body fat and an increase in lean tissue; therefore, their association with unhealthy weight loss practices was not s...Study tests oral insulin to prevent type 1 diabetes
...d blood vessels. Another TrialNet study seeks to turn off the bodys attack on beta cells with rituximab, a monoclonal antibody that binds to and temporarily destroys a class of immune cells. The rituximab trial is recruiting patients with type 1 diabetes diagnosed within the previous three months. Also ...Brain inflammation may be friend, not foe, for Alzheimer's patients
...h. The work suggests that doctors not rush in to turn off molecular events that scientists have widely considered to be detrimental in people with the disease. The findings could also renew efforts to develop a vaccine or other strategies against Alzheimers by engaging the bodys immune system. The tea...Mercury's link to heart disease begins in blood vessel walls
...x sequence of events in the cell membranes that in turn releases phosphatidic acid, which can damage cells in the vessel lining called endothelial cells and is believed to contribute to vascular disorders. To further test the enzyme's role in blood vessel lining damage, the scientists then showed tha...